Houlihan Lokey hires Rit Amin as senior vice president in private finance

By Devika Patel

Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 22 - Houlihan Lokey announced in a press release that Rit Amin has joined the firm as a senior vice president in the private finance practice.

Amin will be based in the Los Angeles office and will report to Noel Ryan, managing director and co-head of the private finance practice. He will focus on raising senior, mezzanine debt and private equity capital for leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings as well as recapitalizations and refinancing for the firm's clients across all industry sectors.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Amin was a director in Wachovia Securities' leveraged finance group. While at Wachovia Securities, he also was a vice president in the high-yield group and spent several years in the financial sponsors and merchant banking practices.

He has over 10 years of investment banking and capital raising experience for leveraged buyouts, strategic acquisitions, corporate recapitalizations and take-private transactions in a variety of industry sectors including information technology, business services, general industrial, defense/aerospace, media and telecommunications.

Amin graduated from the George Mason University School of Management.

"Clients are increasingly looking to bankers who can structure financing solutions to meet their capital needs, and Houlihan Lokey is committed to helping our clients achieve their goals," Ryan said in the release. "Rit's extensive investment banking and capital raising experience across a variety of industry sectors complements our approach to corporate finance."

Houlihan Lokey is an international investment bank based in Los Angeles.

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